Summary for
Mandark (whole post
here):
TLDR it's a generous public option plan with cost cutting measures that expands the OG Medicare, Medicaid, and a new "Medicare for All Public Option" until everything is consolidated in her third year.
Anti-corruption:
- close revolving door
- huge tax on corporate lobbying ($500k - $1m: 35%, $1m - $5m: 65%, $5m+: 75%)
- complete ban on direct corporate donations and fundraising for politicians
- undo Trump sabotage of ACA (there's a list but you already know what these are)
- executive orders:
- lower drug prices, march-in authority under Bayh-Dole
- make ACA tax credits available to everyone
- employer rebates from insurance companies must go directly to employee
- remove some federal obstacles to medicaid expansion
- break up Big Hospital
- budget reconciliation to
- improve Medicare and lower age threshold to 50
- for everyone else, new public option that's free for children and families at 200% of poverty level
- public option has automatic enrollment
- states get funding passthrough waivers to try singlepayer model if they want
- $100 billion over ten years in mandatory NIH spending
- Medicare for All legislation happens in 3rd year of term
There's an explicit expectation here that by the time her 3rd year rolls around "the number of people insured by private companies will be quite low".
